Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently had an idea to which our federal government should pay attention.

DeSantis believes some federal agencies, bureaus and offices should be relocated from Washington, D.C., to other cities and towns around the United States.

U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., according to FloridaPolitics.com, endorsed the idea, saying it’s “big, bold” and could help “save our country.”

DeSantis, as Washington, D.C.-based newspaper The Hill reports, believes the federal bureaucracy is too “detached” from the American people and their needs, and that such an effort at decentralization would “help reduce the negative effects” of the expansive creep of federal regulatory authority.

It is a point worth considering. Moreso, it would empower federal agencies to recruit staff — and for their staff members’ paychecks to go farther — if agencies and offices left Washington’s high cost of living and crime.

It would also bring more jobs and a greater opportunity to pursue different careers to smaller cities throughout the nation. And it would, as DeSantis hinted, bring the philosophies and values of these communities to how our federal bureaucracy functions. The perspectives of workers in Hughesville or Wellsboro or Duncansville or Sheffield could certainly shake the bureaucracy out of its myopic limits and possibly improve how these agencies perform their responsibilities.

With the advances in technology and communications, as evidenced by the rise in work-from-home arrangements during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, past obstacles and arguments against the nation’s bureaucracy seem increasingly obsolete.

While lawmakers would need to decide the extent and timeframe for such a move, it is certainly a conversation worth having, and could both improve how our federal government functions and create jobs throughout our nation.